Martinsburg independent. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1875-1900, 1887-06-11
News Notes.

Complaint is made that govern
ment clerks get to work too early.
A fire at Hamburg destroyed pro-
perty valued at several million
marks.
Ex-yice President VIM. A. Wheel
er is dying at his home at Malone
N. j.
The White House is being thor
oughly renovated during the absence
of the President.
Benjamin Courtright,of Scranton,
Pa, accidentally killed himself while
examining shot gun.
President and Mrs. Cleveland Gel
cbrated the first anniversary of their
wedding by going fishing.
There have been thirteen cases of
yellow fever in Key West, four of
which have resulted fatally.
Sam Bernard walked from Louis.
vile to London, KY, distance of
167 miles, to be tried for murder.
Owing to the excitement in Leb-
anon, Pa, over the Showers murder
case, the trial has been postponed
until September 3rd.
The Ontario Senate has decided
by vote Of 80 to Is, that divorce
obtained in the United States is of
non-effect in Canada.
The Supreme Court of Kansas has
just decided that married woman
need not take her husbands name
unless she elects to do so.
The running expenses of the vii
lage of Estelline, Dakota, for the last
year, were $4S, the chief item being
the marshall's salary, $40.
Mrs. Grant has SO far received
from the publishers of Gen. Grants
Memories nearly 100000. The
work has constant and large sale.
Two hundred COWS suffering with
pleuro.pneumonia in Westchester
county, N. Y, were purchased yes
terday by the dairy commissioners
for $4,000 and killed.
One hundred and fifty-two newly
made Mormon emigrants, with about
fifty children, arrived at New York
on the Nevada, of the Guion Line,
from Europe last week. Two thirds
were women from 90 to 80 years of
age.
The exodus of Cinnamon from the
Pacific coast has assumed such pro-
portions that it now exceeds that of
any previous year. The say their
business has been steadily decreas.
ing in California, and that they are
compelled to come East.
Walter and Charles Davis, broth
ers, tied the fourteen-year-ol daugh-
ter of John Flanagan to d tree and
outraged her. A lyDching party
caught Charles, and, after hanging
him to tree, riddled him with bull
let's. The crime was committed in
Crawford county, KY.
Blanche Kramer, a girl born four
years ago in shanty near Tower
City, in Dakota, is creating sensa-
ton in that territory by her playing
on the piano in public concerts.
She plays strictly by note, and her
knowledge and observance of rests,
dots, accidentals and, in fact, all
the characters used in music is truly
remarkable.
Boston rejoices in the application
Of steam power to boot polishing.
In shop located in the midst of the
disciples of Blackstone has been fit.
ted up an engine with complex ar
rangement of straps by which brush
es are whirled at q surprising rate.
The customers are seated on a board
bench and polished off in very
short time.
Two carloads ofTexes ponies that
had been shipped from Texas to
Eastern Pennsylvania to Bangor,
Me-, were unloaded at Hartford, CT,
Friday. It is understood that they
had been eighteen days on the cars
without food. Several of the ami
mails we're dead when the cars were
opened, and those that were alive
in a terribly emaciated condition.
Sunday morning lightning struck
house near Brownsville, Texas,
killing Manuel Portales and his wife,
and stunning Eugenio Rincones and
his wife, who when brought to were
each blind in the right eye. A sus-
picion has always existed among